Sea-Ice Mass Balance Influenced by Ice Shelves

• Main Author: Hoppmann, Mario
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: Jacobs University Bremen 2015
• Subjects: Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Weddell Sea; Weddell; Atka; Ekström Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Iceberg*; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/39101/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/39101/1/Dissertation_hoppmann.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.46336; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.46336.d001

Floating ice shelves at the boundary between the Antarctic ice sheet and the Southern Ocean play a crucial role in Antarctica’s mass balance through iceberg calving and basal melting. The latter has strong implications for coastal Antarctic sea-ice properties through the formation of a sub-ice plate...